PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathology, Polygraph, Job Performance

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

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4 domains: assessment, organizational consultation (police selection), intervention (police st(cid:396)ess(cid:895), a(cid:374)d ope(cid:396)atio(cid:374)al suppo(cid:396)t (cid:894)i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:396)ogatio(cid:374), et(cid:272) (cid:895) Police psychology = a process (agencies) by which police agencies select police officers from a pool of applicants. This includes screening out people who have undesirable qualities and bringing in people who have desirable qualities. Tested in police selection= physical fitness, personality, decision making under stress and cognitive abilities. Not a new process, began in the early 1900. In 1916 terman was using iq to select them, applicants required a score of 80 or higher to be accepted- in that time it was mainly the braun they wanted (more physically capable) than brains. Thurstone then decided in 1922 that police officers were not very intelligent and came up with his own iq test. 1950 was the first time they looked at personality (cid:1005)9(cid:1010)(cid:1004)"s-(cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s (cid:373)o(cid:396)e ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hiat(cid:396)i(cid:272) Today we use all of them not just one or the other. Out east- agencies do a pre-employment polygraph.